Olympia Japan edition?--Correction and Addition

Michael McCaskey mccaskem
Thu May 29 21:41:02 EDT 2008 

Correction

The URL

http://www.tmu.ac.jp/extra/findResult.html

where Prof. Masumoto's work is listed by his Univ. is a generic search result page URL, and doesn't actually take you to Prof. Masumoto's work listing at all, if you try to use it separately as the URL a second time.

If you type Masumoto Naofumi in kanji in the search box on that same page, and click the kensaku button, though, you will get there after all.

It should also be added that Dr. Hansen's reference to Prof. Masumoto provided the indispensable point of departure to begin with.

Best To All,

mmcc

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael McCaskey <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:19 pm
Subject: RE: Olympia Japan edition?

> I wondered about that, since the Japanese text said it "was 
> recorded," but didn't specify more than that. I made a couple of 
> incorrect inferences on my own, re the NHK label and phonograph 
> record marketing. You truly are an expert on the 1936 Olympics, 
> and I'm sure you would have tracked down the elusive Prof. 
> Masumoto as well, but by chance I've located him. His family name 
> kanji are not so common.
> 
> He's listed on an official page of tmu:
> 
> http://www.tmu.ac.jp/staffdata/MA/1901.html
> 
> as:
> Prof. Masumoto Naofumi
> Kiso Kyoiku Sentaa
> Ningen kenko kagaku kenyu-ka herusu puromosshon saiensu
> 
> and there's more about his work at:
> 
> http://www.tmu.ac.jp/extra/findResult.html
> 
> The most complete info is at:
> 
> http://read.jst.go.jp/public/cs_ksh_008EventAction.do?action4=event&lang_act4=J&judge_act4=2&knkysh_name_code=1000053965
> 
> Prof. Masumoto's personal web page is at:
> 
> http://www.sci.metro-u.ac.jp/sport/personal/masumoto/masumoto.html
>          
> And his email address is:
> 
> naomasumoto at tmu.ac.jp&#12288;
> 
> For some reason my univ. email has temporarily gone stupid on me, 
> and apparently can't recognize non-US email addresses, but I 
> believe I successfully managed to send Prof. Naofumi and you a 
> joint email via an MSN acct. I also use.
> 
> I'm sending you the full information here, in case the email 
> somehow did not go through, and in case anyone else wishes to 
> learn about Prof. Masumoto.
> 
> I'm very impressed by your determination and your expertise, and I 
> hope that you and Prof. Masumoto may be able to have some fruitful 
> discussions that will be helpful.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> Michael McCaskey
> 
> PS
> I was taught to swim as a child by a former 1936 Japanese Olympic 
> swimmer, who I think may have been a prize winner. He was a great 
> teacher and a fine and unassuming person. I had a much less 
> successful experience with tennis lessons from a man who said he 
> had been on the 1936 Japanese Olympic Tennis Team. Unfortunately, 
> though, I don't remember the names of either one.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hopkins/Kato <hopkat at sa2.so-net.ne.jp>
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:45 pm
> Subject: RE: Olympia Japan edition?
> 
> > Yes, that's essentially true, but the recorded version was 
> > released on the
> > Asahi label and is a recreation and not the actual broadcast. 
> NHK 
> > did not
> > release records for sale, although there are records with NHK 
> > labels that
> > were distributed to radio stations throughout the empire.
> > David Hopkins
> > Tenri University
> > Nara, Japan
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > [owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Michael
> > McCaskey
> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:58 AM
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: RE: Olympia Japan edition?
> > 
> > Dr. Janine Hansen's expertise has provided excellent and highly 
> > pertinentinformation, as always. Dr. Hansen's essay on Japanese-
> > German film
> > connections,
> > 
> > "Celluloid Competition: German-Japanese Film Relations, 1929-45" in
> > Cinema and the Swastika
> > The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema 
> > Palgrave Macmillan 2007
> > ISBN 1-4039-9491-9
> > 
> > is a must-read item. Dr. Hansen has also written an in-depth 
> book 
> > studyabout the making of the unique 1937 German-Japanese feature 
> > film Die Tochter
> > des Samurai/Atarashiki tsuchi, which should be published in English.
> > 
> > In a desultory attempt to find out something about Japanese 
> newsreels> covering the 1936 Olympics, I came across some rather 
> less pertinent
> > information about live NHK Radio Japan 1936 Olympic coverage, 
> > which might
> > nevertheless be of some interest.
> > 
> > Kasai Sansei(1898-1970) was the famous NHK Radio 
> > announcer/sportscaster who
> > covered the 1936 Olympics on site in Berlin. One of the biggest 
> Berlin> Olympic events in Japanese remembrance was the women's 
> swimming 
> > 200 meter
> > race competition. The Japanese athlete in the event was Maehata
> > Hideko(1914-1995). Maehata won a Gold Medal in this event.
> > 
> > Kasai got so excited during the race that he lost his NHK 
> > broadcaster'scool, and cheered Maehata on excitedly. In fact, he 
> > is supposed to have
> > yelled "Maehata ganbare!" (Go Maehata!) more than twenty times 
> > during the
> > broadcast. The NHK live radio relay coverage was heard in Japan 
> after> midnight Japan Time. The story is that an employee of the 
> Nagoya 
> > Shimbunbecame so excited listening to Kasai cheering Maehata on 
> > that he collapsed
> > and died on the spot.
> > 
> > It seems that this broadcast was so popular back in 1936 that it 
> > was put out
> > by NHK as a phonograph record, with only thing cut out - the 
> dramatic> win-or-lose point in the race when Kasai screamed 
> "Maehata Abunai!"
> > (Maehata, Watch Out!). 
> > 
> > Information on Maehata at:
> > http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E7%95%91%E7%A7%80%E5%AD%90
> > 
> > A Japanese transcript of Kasai's famous 1936 Maehata swimming event
> > broadcast is available online at:
> > 
> > http://archive.hp.infoseek.co.jp/1936Maehata.html
> > 
> > Best Wishes,
> > 
> > Michael McCaskey
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Janine Hansen <hansen at hanzie.de>
> > Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:26 am
> > Subject: RE: Olympia Japan edition?
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > it seems there were quite many versions of the two Olympia 
> > films, 
> > > prewar and postwar. As far as I know English, French, and 
> > Italian 
> > > export versions were made simultaneously to the German one. 
> > After 
> > > WW2, there was at least one more German version which was even 
> > > shown on TV under a different title and with all the 
> references 
> > to 
> > > Hitler cut.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I haven't read it yet but maybe the following article can be 
> > helpful:> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Masumoto, Naofumi
> > > 
> > > Interpretations of the Filmed Body: An Analysis of the 
> Japanese 
> > > Version of Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia
> > > 
> > > Critical Reflections on Olympic Ideology
> > > 
> > > Centre for Olympic Studies
> > > 
> > > 1994
> > > 
> > > pp. 146-158
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Best wishes
> > > 
> > > Janine
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hopkins/Kato <hopkat at sa2.so-net.ne.jp>
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:45 pm
> Subject: RE: Olympia Japan edition?
> 
> > Yes, that's essentially true, but the recorded version was 
> > released on the
> > Asahi label and is a recreation and not the actual broadcast. 
> NHK 
> > did not
> > release records for sale, although there are records with NHK 
> > labels that
> > were distributed to radio stations throughout the empire.
> > David Hopkins
> > Tenri University
> > Nara, Japan
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > [owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Michael
> > McCaskey
> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:58 AM
> > To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> > Subject: RE: Olympia Japan edition?
> > 
> > Dr. Janine Hansen's expertise has provided excellent and highly 
> > pertinentinformation, as always. Dr. Hansen's essay on Japanese-
> > German film
> > connections,
> > 
> > "Celluloid Competition: German-Japanese Film Relations, 1929-45" in
> > Cinema and the Swastika
> > The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema 
> > Palgrave Macmillan 2007
> > ISBN 1-4039-9491-9
> > 
> > is a must-read item. Dr. Hansen has also written an in-depth 
> book 
> > studyabout the making of the unique 1937 German-Japanese feature 
> > film Die Tochter
> > des Samurai/Atarashiki tsuchi, which should be published in English.
> > 
> > In a desultory attempt to find out something about Japanese 
> newsreels> covering the 1936 Olympics, I came across some rather 
> less pertinent
> > information about live NHK Radio Japan 1936 Olympic coverage, 
> > which might
> > nevertheless be of some interest.
> > 
> > Kasai Sansei(1898-1970) was the famous NHK Radio 
> > announcer/sportscaster who
> > covered the 1936 Olympics on site in Berlin. One of the biggest 
> Berlin> Olympic events in Japanese remembrance was the women's 
> swimming 
> > 200 meter
> > race competition. The Japanese athlete in the event was Maehata
> > Hideko(1914-1995). Maehata won a Gold Medal in this event.
> > 
> > Kasai got so excited during the race that he lost his NHK 
> > broadcaster'scool, and cheered Maehata on excitedly. In fact, he 
> > is supposed to have
> > yelled "Maehata ganbare!" (Go Maehata!) more than twenty times 
> > during the
> > broadcast. The NHK live radio relay coverage was heard in Japan 
> after> midnight Japan Time. The story is that an employee of the 
> Nagoya 
> > Shimbunbecame so excited listening to Kasai cheering Maehata on 
> > that he collapsed
> > and died on the spot.
> > 
> > It seems that this broadcast was so popular back in 1936 that it 
> > was put out
> > by NHK as a phonograph record, with only thing cut out - the 
> dramatic> win-or-lose point in the race when Kasai screamed 
> "Maehata Abunai!"
> > (Maehata, Watch Out!). 
> > 
> > Information on Maehata at:
> > http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E7%95%91%E7%A7%80%E5%AD%90
> > 
> > A Japanese transcript of Kasai's famous 1936 Maehata swimming event
> > broadcast is available online at:
> > 
> > http://archive.hp.infoseek.co.jp/1936Maehata.html
> > 
> > Best Wishes,
> > 
> > Michael McCaskey
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Janine Hansen <hansen at hanzie.de>
> > Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:26 am
> > Subject: RE: Olympia Japan edition?
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > it seems there were quite many versions of the two Olympia 
> > films, 
> > > prewar and postwar. As far as I know English, French, and 
> > Italian 
> > > export versions were made simultaneously to the German one. 
> > After 
> > > WW2, there was at least one more German version which was even 
> > > shown on TV under a different title and with all the 
> references 
> > to 
> > > Hitler cut.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I haven't read it yet but maybe the following article can be 
> > helpful:> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Masumoto, Naofumi
> > > 
> > > Interpretations of the Filmed Body: An Analysis of the 
> Japanese 
> > > Version of Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia
> > > 
> > > Critical Reflections on Olympic Ideology
> > > 
> > > Centre for Olympic Studies
> > > 
> > > 1994
> > > 
> > > pp. 146-158
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Best wishes
> > > 
> > > Janine
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>

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